On 5/11/07, Jim Armstrong <jarmstro@qwest.net> wrote:
>
> any form that is identified is almost
> axiomatically excluded from candidacy as a transitional form.

Exactly. The "transitional form" claim of the YECs is extremely
misleading. They refuse to recognize that all animals in the fossil record
are transitional forms. They therefore define a transitional form as "an
animal having characteristics of different *known* forms." How convenient.
That way, any new find that would fit that criterion would automatically be
eliminated and called a known form. Now that we have Archaeopteryx the YECs
are wondering what came between it and a reptile.

-Sigh-

-David Buller

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Received on Fri May 11 15:55:58 2007